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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Milvus vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Milvus vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp KunDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp KunDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodOLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle
Primary database modelDocument storeVector DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score2.79
Rank#113  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.70
Rank#150  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#114  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#344  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmilvus.iopouchdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­kundb
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software FoundationSTS Soft SCTranswarp
Initial release2010201920122011
Current release2.3.4, January 20247.1.1, June 20194.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++, GoJavaScriptC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoVector, Numeric and Stringnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoView functions in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnonoyes
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IBM CloudantMilvusPouchDBSTSdbTranswarp KunDB
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMilvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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